Re: [Shorewall-devel] Shorewall and IPV6

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

Steve Herber wrote:
> Could a + work?  I am thinking of a feature plus an option or restriction.
> Maybe a - would work, but it is used in ranges so it might make parsing 
> too hard.
> 
> ACCEPT          $FW       loc:192.168.168.3     all     all
> 
> ACCEPT          $FW       loc+192.168.168.3     all     all
> 
> 
> How hard is it for your parser to be changed from : to another character?
> Is the separator character a parameter?  Maybe extracting it out would be
> the first step in trying alternates.
> 
> 

Unfortunately, the parser does pattern-matching then extracts the pieces
using ${xxx#...} and ${...%...} variable expansion. So it requires
several changes for each column for each file :-(

Parameterizing the separator would be a tedious exercise in shell
programming.

-Tom
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